MARY PREACHES AND THE COLONEL PREVAILS A fortnight had gone by, and during this time Morris was a frequent visitor at Seaview.

Also his Cousin Mary had come over twice or thrice to lunch, with her father or without him.

Once, indeed, she had stopped all the afternoon, spending most of it in the workshop with Morris.

This workshop, it may be remembered, was the old chapel of the Abbey, a very beautiful and still perfect building, finished in early Tudor times, in which, by good fortune, the rich stained glass of the east window still remained.

It made a noble and spacious laboratory, with its wide nave and lovely roof of chestnut wood, whereof the corbels were seraphs, white-robed and golden-winged.
"Are you not afraid to desecrate such a place with your horrid vices--I mean the iron things--and furnace and litter ?" asked Mary.